From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:43:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] commit: introduce a config key to allow as-is commit with i-t-a entries Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vhaz37nce.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 2012/2/7 Junio C Hamano : >> +                     if (i < active_nr) >> +                             warning(_("You are committing as-is with intent-to-add entries as the result of\n" >> +                                       "\"git add -N\". Git currently forbids this case. > > Can we phrase this a bit better? > > It is not like "forbids", but is "giving up because you didn't tell me > what content to include in the commit, even though you said you will tell > me later". "rejects"? I would rather say "see `git add -N` man page for more explanation" than putting it here. The warning is quite long as it is right now. -- Duy